The cards, THE CARDS

[Trayol]

Soapbox time.

I'm getting really sick of people refusing to connect school ids to school activities. It isn't a hard concept, a current school ID is needed to get into the Rec or FH. The rule is not new. It has existed for years, most likely decades. Seriously, you're in college people you've had IDs since at least Middle school, it's nothing new. I keep asking the Administrators if I could get a cattle prod, but for some reason they keep telling me NO. My only satisfaction is making people leave to go get their cards that they forgot on accident again. At least I know for next year since everyone is getting new IDs that if they are the wrong color we get to laugh at the attempted frauders

[BookstoreEscapee]

I didn't get a school ID until my senior year in High School. And it was only seniors who got them.

But in college I never forgot my ID.

[bigjimaz]

I graduated high school in 1971 and ID badges/tags were never even thought of back then.

Since all of the craziness with school shootings security is up at every school in the US. When I went to visit my son early last year I offered to go pick up my grandson from preschool and even after my daughter-in-law called the center and told them that I was coming for him and what kind of car (rental) I was driving, I still had to jump through hoops to even get into the parking lot. It's a scary world and I certainly understand the need for heightened security. I feel for those people who have to do the screening.

[iviles]

I feel your pain. Have you gotten the ones that try to use someone elses and cover the picture with their fingers yet???

[rerant]

My old college never even bothered to give me an ID, and whenever I tried to get one there was one reason or another why I couldn't get it at that time.
Eventually I just gave up.

[Trayol]

I graduated high school in 1971 and ID badges/tags were never even thought of back then.

For we....more recent generations...IDs are very common place. At least well enough to know that it is necessary to have with you at all times.

Have you gotten the ones that try to use someone elses and cover the picture with their fingers yet???

Surprisingly only once since we have to physically take the cards and swipe them in ourselves. The students here are not that stupid. Hooray?

[blas]

I went to two different high schools......the one never bothered with IDs but always had teachers on guard during class times..

The other, every student had an ID but you never really needed to use it.

I have discovered that the two public schools in the city I currently live in have on duty guards at school and require students to show ID when entering school and all of their stuff gets searched.

[Rhania506]

Both colleges that I went to used the school id mostly as sort of a debit card. It was used in the cafeteria to get meals from your meal plan and in any of the on campus eateries you would use your declining balance. When I got to grad school, the ids could also be used to pay for items in the bookstore, copies/prints in the library, laundry machines and most vending machines. I never used my declining balance much and it didn't roll over to the next year, so it was always a mad scramble at the end of the year to spend the rest of it. You would see people buying food for whole groups of people trying to use the last of their money.
~Rhania

[AdminAssistant]

Both colleges that I went to used the school id mostly as sort of a debit card. It was used in the cafeteria to get meals from your meal plan and in any of the on campus eateries you would use your declining balance. When I got to grad school, the ids could also be used to pay for items in the bookstore, copies/prints in the library, laundry machines and most vending machines. I never used my declining balance much and it didn't roll over to the next year, so it was always a mad scramble at the end of the year to spend the rest of it. You would see people buying food for whole groups of people trying to use the last of their money.

That's the way it was at my college, too. I had to use my ID to get in the dorm, check out library books, eat at the cafeteria, etc.

Now my high school never used ID cards (I graduated in 2001), and to my knowledge still don't. But I also went to a very small high school in a very small redneck town. You know, the kind of place where the principal had to go around once a year to remind the guys to take their hunting rifles out of their trucks before they come to school.

[powerboy]

used the school id mostly as sort of a debit card.

That is how it was back at my high school. Other than that, the ID's was useless

[Shangri-laschild]

It could be worse...the students are driving me insane too. So I keep telling my officer coworkers they should go down to college center guns drawn or start wearing the ARs. At least then maybe the students would believe that they are real cops (which they are!!). All I get is jokes about sending me to the psych test.

[Pagan]

I graduated high school in '87 and we didn't have IDs then, either. I don't know if they do now or not.

The one I had for NMSU was pretty much used just for getting student discounts around town (just needed to show it, no swiping or anything) and to house my collection of student activity stickers. Got a new one every semester. I think I had about 18 by the time I graduated. Hey, don't look at me like that....I had a inter-college double-major. The IDs also happened to be green....so we all had our "green cards"!

The one I have now for CNM, the only thing it seems to be for is so that the cashiers around school can scan the barcode and don't need to type in my ID#?

[StevieJD]

I had to go to a local HS for a service call.

Was told that I had to check in with the office. Get a temp ID, have my tool box searched and have an escort to the building that I needed to visit.

Seems reasonable.


I checked in. The Temp ID was a sticker of a . No toolbox search even though the metal detector went nutz. My escort was to be a student, but she had do something else so I was escort free.

And I ran into the local LE with his humongous drug dog walking the hallways.

I am an adult male, well old enough to be somebody's grandfather carrying a toolbox the size of a sawed off you know what and NOBODY, not even LE gave me a second look.

Of course if I had done anything real stupid the oversized German Shepard drug dog would have taken me out.

[Brightglaive]

Huh???

When I was in high school back in '86 we had laminated ID cards for student prices at the student activities. Theywere called the student activities cards. There was some forgettable name for them like "the cubby card" or some such but I never paid enough attention. Throughout my junior high and high school and college periods I have always had a student ID. It seems strange that some schools don't do that.

At the very least the cost for the student fees that are assessed to get the ID raises funds for the school and school activities. Why wouldn't they use it?

[IHateStupidCustomers]

My boyfriend is one of those people. Like trying to use a student discount at the movies and not bringing his ID.

"I need you're student ID please."
"I don't have it."
"Well, I can't do the student discount, then, I'm sorry."
"Why?"
*insert obvious reason*
"Why?"
*rinse and repeat*
"This is bullshit!"